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Ptolemy XII Auletes in Wikipedia

Ptolemy Neos Dionysos Theos Philopator Theos Philadelphos (117–51 BC) (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Νέος Διόνυσος Θεός Φιλοπάτωρ Θεός Φιλάδελφος, Ptolemaios Néos Diónusos Theós Philopátōr Theós Philádelphos), New Dionysus, God Beloved of his Father, God Beloved of his Brother) was more commonly known as "Auletes" (The Flutist) (Αὐλητής, Aulētḗs), or "Nothos" ...

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Prusias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

II. King of Bithynia, son and successor of the preceding, reigned from about B.C. 180 to 149. He courted assiduously the alliance of the Romans. He carried on war with Attalus, king of Pergamus, with whom, however, he was compelled by the Romans to conclude peace in 154. He was slain in 149 by order of his son Nicomedes, as is related in the life o...

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Ptolemy IX Lathyros in Wikipedia

Ptolemy IX Soter II or Lathyros ("grass pea") (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ Λάθυρος, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr Láthuros) was king of Egypt three times, from 116 BC to 110 BC, 109 BC to 107 BC and 88 BC to 81 BC, with intervening periods ruled by his brother, Ptolemy X Alexander. At first he was chosen by his mother Cleopatra III to be her co-regent (his father ...

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Prodicus in Wikipedia

Prodicus of Ceos (Greek: Πρόδικος, Pródikos; c. 465-c. 395 BC) was a Greek philosopher, and part of the first generation of Sophists. He came to Athens as ambassador from Ceos, and became known as a speaker and a teacher. Plato treats him with greater respect than the other sophists, and in several of the Platonic dialogues Socrates appears as the ...

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Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator in Wikipedia

Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Θεός Φιλοπάτωρ, Ptolemaĩos Theós Philopátōr, lived 62 BC/61 BC–January 13, 47 BC?, reigned from 51 BC) was one of the last members of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BC) of Egypt. Co-ruler of Egypt, inner turmoil Son of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII of Egypt (80–58 BC and 55–51 BC), he succeeded his father in t...

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Polysperchon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πολυσπέρχων). A Macedonian, and a distinguished officer of Alexander the Great (Arrian, Anab. iii. 11). In B.C. 323 he was appointed by Alexander II. in command of the army of invalids and veterans, which Craterus had to conduct home to Macedonia. He afterwards served under Antipater in Europe, and so great was the confidence which the latter repo...

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Praxilla in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πράξιλλα). A Greek poetess of Sicyon, about B.C. 450, who composed hymns and dithyrambs, but was especially famous for her scolia, or drinking-songs. We possess only insignificant fragments of her poems (Suidas, s. h. v.)....

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Pleistoanax in Wikipedia

Pleistoanax (Greek: Πλειστοάναξ; reigned 458 BC – 409 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta. He was the son of regent Pausanias (general), who was disgraced for conspiring with Xerxes. Pleistoanax was most anxious for Peace during the so-called First Peloponnesian War. He was exiled sometime between 446 BC and 444 BC, charged by the Spartans with taking ...

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Polemon in Wikipedia

Polemon (or Polemo) is the name of eminent ancient Greeks: Philosophers Polemon (scholarch) Polemon (Greek: Πολέμων; d. 270/269 BC) of Athens was an eminent Platonist philosopher and Plato's third successor as scholarch or head of the Academy from 314/313 to 270/269 BC. A pupil of Xenocrates, he believed that philosophy should be practiced rather...

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Polydectes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πολυδέκτης). The son of Magnes, king of the island of Seriphus. He attempted to compel Danae to marry him, but was turned into a stone by her son Perseus by the sight of the head of Medusa. See Perseus....

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